Show The Grandeur of America is Yet Unknown to the Many By J. Lloyd M. D. There is no other slogan which should be so energetically and widely proclaimed as the It is pregnant with a patriotism of the highest It means if its mission is fulfilled that America will come into her grandeur and beauty be appreciated at their true and her resources which now lie idle or undiscovered be actively employed to add to her wealth and In the east the general public and much of the traveling public has little conception of what the United States in the all-embracing term really To the average easterner Chicago the yet the hustling City i's hardly on the border line of western The true west only commences as the long eastern slope of the Rocky mountains is Vague and hazy indeed are the ideas of the vast fairy land which stretches away to the setting sun and yet what a wealth of aesthetic enjoyment and material opportunity is holds for the opportunity it holds for the 1 Wonders of the To the easterner invades the west for the first time the majestic are a To stand at midday in August at the foot of some mighty with its glistening crown of never melting towering thousands of a new and long remembered emotion to the lover of And to clamber through canyons so deep that at noon the twinkling stars are seen far causes one to realize as never before that there are in books in the running Sermons in Vast And if you are fond of a couple of pack horses and a guide Avill carry you in a very short time into a solitude so vast that you almost wonder if the busy world of yesterday is not a confused dream and the the the druid the newness of the green things the hoary age of the beetling is not the real and true But if your soul is not at rest where nature holds undisputed and unless you love her you may not understand her in her wildest you may enjoy her near at Almost within the range of the whistle of your waiting train you may lie on your back on the cool green earth with a tumbling mountain stream singing the old legends of the pines and the rocks to The blue sky arches over broken the canopy of dancing leaves and fleecy milk-white clouds float which take on fantastic shapes' as they journey o'er the azure The music of myriad birds' is around an anthem fitting for such a filling your soul with a quiet while now and then the splash of a leaping trout helps to impress the reality of it all upon And the such full of freshness and scented and saturates you with the gladness of the sweet Or you may wander by the shores of some peak thousands' of feet above the sleeping with the moonlight falling through the giant changing the ripples to silver as they lap the shore at your and listen to nature's wonderful heard only at night far away in the Western Marts of Leaving nature only a step you can stand in the busy marts of trade and watch an empire grow before your very As if by magic you see the forces of the gods harnessed and Rivers are chained and the intricate machinery of a great mine i's set in the stream of water being converted almost literally into a stream of A desert is transformed from its pristine savagery into a land of homes and bounteous harvests before your astonished You find a wilderness tomorrow a garden has taken its Villages are and in a night almost they are flourishing Mighty Fairy you I grant you are The history of the redemption of the west surpasses in wonder and interest any fairy tale ever Where were Salt San Los Angeles and the other great coast cities a little over half a century was the mighty civilization that today is the wonder of the In congress Daniel Webster making his famous declaring the Rocky mountain country a desert not worth the effort necessary to save it from England and the silence of the woods was only broken by the Indian's war answered by the lonesome howl of the coyote and the The Gem of the These are a few of the promises held out to the the artist and the financier by the Great Come to learn of her as she get in with her throbbing and you will feel indeed that is not only the of the but also the gem of the the valley and the |